Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-06-24
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

Tie $50 anniversary of the settlement of
the town of Duxbury was celebrated June II.
james S. Atwood of Chelsea, while at
tempting TO alight from a street car on Tre>
mont street Boston fell beneath the wheels.
1t Yves found he had received fracture of
four toe and wound OF the foot which ex-
po cd the bone.
Gen. Paino has decided upon a name for
his new sloop-the Volunteer.
The town of Malone, has offered $500 for
reward, in addition 10 that offered by
Franklin county, making $1,000 in all, for the
arrest of George A. King for the murder of
Eugene Van Norman of Niagara county at
Malone on tho night of June l.
Mrs Peal Lacey Of New York, land.
some young woman % years old, who had
toen married less than month, shot herself
and died in few hours. Honlesjckness and
regret for having married n bartender
against the wishes OF her parents, who are
highly respected, seem to have teen the mo-
tives which caused her to take her Ee.
George Gou,ds new yacht is to be called
the Hildegarde.
The Dakota Grand Lodge of Masons passed
his resolution:
That no person who Is engaged in the
business OF keeping a saloon, or of retailing
! intoxicat ny liquors to be u.ed as a beverage,
shall he Initiated i'll any subordinate lodge in
this jurisdiction; nor shalt any brother
Mason who is engaged in such business be
| received in any lodge by aftiliation."
Johanna Casey, the alleged Insane immi.
grant for who the Cunard company had to
pay $1,000 for allowing her to land, has
returned te Liverpool.
Jake Sharp spent Sunday in Ludlow street
| Jail, in the rooms occupied by Tweed and
| Ward
Bernhardt in her tour of IA months and
252 performances, Cleared S300,0)0.
Robbers secured s75, 900 by cleaning out
an express train near Flatonia, Texas.
The first train that ever ran, or attempted
to lun, west of the Allegheny mountains
with crude petroleum, was mail train on
the Pennsylvania railroad on the 18th inst.
The experiment. was complete success.
annoyance fl ON smoke or cinders. The
process is the invention of a Russian scien-
tist. Other trains have since beon run with
equally satisfactory results
Mrs. President Cleveland visited Wells
College, Aurora, N. Y.
A crisis in .he affairs of Plymouth church
is considered to be fast q, preaching. 1t has
shut down for the summer--what has never
been done before.
Five men were terribly injured by an ex-
pIosion in mine at Pittston Junction, Pa.
| Senator Ransom emphatically denies the
report that he has been rendered the position
Of secretary of the interior.
Henry V. Lesley, the defaulting secretary,
and J. A L. Wilson, the defaulting treas
urer of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Company, have been captured.
DcDonald and McGarigle, the Chicago
boodlers, have been convicted and sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary; about 80
others are soon to folio them.
By the retirement OF Naval Constr motor
Murch, it is probable that Constructor Pook,
now at the New York Navy Yard, will be
raised to the relative rank of captain.
Canon Wilberforce addressed large audi
ence in New York on the evils of intem,
perance.
Another earthquake shock has been felt
at Summerville, S. C.
Miss Kearney of Terre Haute, Ind, was
fired at by DR.. Staudacher, whose suit she
had rejected. Her life saved by corset
steel.
Mr.. Moores balloon at st. Louis, Mo,
ing to the instruments of the United States
signal service. This is the highest on record
in America, the Thermometer marking 81
degrees
The supreme court of Missouri will render
an opinion affirming the judgement of the
st. Louis criminal court in the case Of
Walter Fl. LennoN Maxwell, and sentencing
him to be executed. Maxwell, it will be
remembered, is the English adventurer who
murdered his travelling companion, Preller,
| %APl IL 1oCOJ az INC DOulueTu uOIel, III CD'
Louis, packed his victim in trunk, labelled
the body, rs, perish all traitors to the
great causo," and thence fled to Australia,
whence he was brought by the st. Louis
authorities
Three citizens Of Chicago were drowned in
the lake by beirg overtaken by terrific
squal. No trace of them or their boat has
since been seen.
AT a convention of 'longshoremen in New
York, yesterday, it was decided to formally
request the boss stevedores to restore the old
scale of wages viz, 45 cents an hour and &C
cents an hour for overtime
At the dedication of new Polish church
at Buffalo N. Y, platform fell in carrying
with it more than 100 men, women and
children; 20 hurt, two fatally.
Four italian laborers employed in con,
structing the Big Sandy railway became in-
toxicated A fight occurred in the skiff on
the return trip, and the struggling of the
men could be plainly heard from shore. The
blood despatched boat has been found drift,
ing few miles down the river, but no sign
of its occupants could be seen.
FOREIGN.
The Canadian cabinet has agretd to ask ar
appropriation of $500, ,0J0, to assist the $50, :
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